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'''Acrophobia''', commonly referred to as '''Acro''' for short, and also known as '''Acromania''', is a multi-round, multiplayer online Internet Relay Chat game. The game was originally created by Anthony Shubert in the mid 1990s and has since been been ported by a number of different developers. | '''Acrophobia''', commonly referred to as '''Acro''' for short, and also known as '''Acromania''', is a multi-round, multiplayer online Internet Relay Chat game. The game was originally created by Anthony Shubert in the mid 1990s and has since been been ported by a number of different developers. | ||
A player tells [[Roger]], the #ags bot, ''rog acro'', whenceforth he spews a random acronym, and then players compete to make the most coherent or humorous sentence from it (a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym backronym]). After a set amount of time expires, each player then votes via Roger on which they preferred most, and points are awarded to the most popular backronym. Usually, nonsense backronyms will score low and the most humorous sounding backronym which effectively makes a sentence from the initials will win. | A player tells [[Roger]], the [[AGS IRC|#ags]] bot, ''rog acro'', whenceforth he spews a random acronym, and then players compete to make the most coherent or humorous sentence from it (a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym backronym]). After a set amount of time expires, each player then votes via Roger on which they preferred most, and points are awarded to the most popular backronym. Usually, nonsense backronyms will score low and the most humorous sounding backronym which effectively makes a sentence from the initials will win. | ||
== Example round == | == Example round == |